MediaTemple.Com Web Hosting Review

MediaTemple.net is an industry leading web hosting company that has been in business since 1998, and is a privately held software applications company based out of California. They provide professional class network environments to businesses all over the world, and can offer email, business applications, websites and other media rich content. They are focused on the continued success of the company while adding value to each and every service they provide to the customer.

They offer several different types of web site hosting, including the Grid-Service, which is the standard plan, and is a modern, cluster-based hosting service that is powered by hundreds of individual serves working together to power your web pages, email and applications with unparalleled reliability, burstability and power. Even though it is the base plan, it is still powerful enough to handle any traffic spikes that your site may see, and keep it from experiencing bothersome and costly down times. It has easy to use and optimized automatic installers for Drupal, ZenCart and WordPress, and its mulitihosting can support unique sub-FTP users and unique email addresses for every single domain. This package starts off at $20 per month. The Grid-Service also includes 100 GB of premium storage, 1TB of network transfer, 1000 email accounts, the ability to host up to 100 domains, clustered architecture, MySQL SmartPool v.2, Rails and Django containers, free urchin analytics, a money back guarantee, and many other useful and valuable features.

The services offered go from the Grid-Service to the Dedicated-Virtual package, which starts off at $50 per month, and has 2 more levels of scalability going all the way up to $150 per month. Next up is the largest package they offer, known as the Nitro Package which includes a next-generation dedicated physical virtual server that has been proven reliable, portable OS, a backdoor power panel, and many more features such as dedicated power, VPS Flexibility, Rapid scaling from any (dv), quad core processing, the ability to install any application or server software that you deem necessary, SAS storage to provide ultimate speeds and writes that are up to 10 times faster, as well as an arsenal of power provided by complicated load balancing and server tacking, and the peace of mind that the easy to use graphical interface of PowerPanel can provide you with.

There is a wealth of valuable and informative text that can be found in the company’s web log as well as their extensive knowledge base, and phone support is available to customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Issue tickets can also be logged through email and replies are usually sent within 24 hours, if not sooner. Also, customers will be promptly notified of any system incidents should they occur.

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